In his introductory news conference Saturday, new Auburn defensive coordinator Will Muschamp said he had no other job offers.
The former Florida coach was linked to several coaching jobs, including Houston, but Muschamp said Auburn was the only school...

Coach Will Muschamp plans to coach again in 2015, and is expected to have plenty of options for his next step after four seasons at UF.
The defensive mastermind should have plenty of options. Muschamp is mulling job offers from Auburn, Texas A&M and the...

Nebraska fired Coach Bo Pelini on Sunday on the heels of a 9-3 campaign that included late-season losses to Wisconsin and Minnesota that dissolved the Cornhuskers' chances of playing in the Big Ten championship game.
Pelini's firing is effective...

GAINESVILLE — The wait is over for Jeremy Foley.
Caught the past two weeks between his football program's recent past and immediate future, UF's longtime athletic director now can turn his full attention to hiring a new coach.
College football's...

The teams in the final Bowl Championship Series national title game Monday at the Rose Bowl took completely different roads to Pasadena.
Florida State used the high-speed express lane on its way to 13-0, cruising by one opponent after another.
Auburn (12-1) took the mountainous back route, navigating potholes, detours and a few angry Georgia Bulldogs.
It doesn't matter now, they're both here.
So, which team takes home the crystal ball?
Is it Auburn, a team of destiny that narrowly escaped...

Florida State will try to end the Southeastern Conference's seven-year run of dominance in Bowl Championship Series title games. Staff writers Gary Klein and Chris Dufresne examine some of the story lines of the last game of the BCS era:
Heisman watch
Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston won the Heisman Trophy, a status that does not guarantee a victory in the BCS championship game.
Heisman winners are 3-6 in title games in the seasons they were recognized as college football's most...

Everything’s gone to Hades in Hattiesburg, where the university Brett Favre made famous is stuck in the mud. Marshall handed Southern Mississippi its 20th consecutive defeat Saturday with a 61-13 win in Huntington, W.Va.
The losing streak is the longest in major college since the Temple Owls lost 20 in a row during the 2004-05 seasons.
Southern Miss recorded its last victory on Christmas Eve 2011, a 24-17 win over Nevada in the Hawaii Bowl.
That win capped a 12-2 season in which Southern...

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Auburn’s defense, statistically, doesn’t seem to stand a chance against Florida State.
The Tigers ranked 87th nationally in total offense and are No. 38 in scoring defense, allowing 24 points per game.
“We have got terrible looking overall statistics and some of them are not misleading,” Auburn defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson said Friday at a BCS press conference in Newport Beach.
Auburn’s unit will be trying to stop a Florida State offense averaging a nation-...

USA Today’s annual database of college football assistant coaches’ salaries further punctures the myth that Virginia is not committed to the sport while, through no fault of the newspaper, understates staff compensation at Virginia Tech.
Posted Thursday, the database shows Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris as the highest-paid assistant among public schools in the Bowl Subdivision at $1.31 million in 2013. That’s before postseason bonus and the primary reason the Tigers’...

The architect of Virginia Tech’s most prolific offenses attended the Hokies’ Sugar Bowl practice Sunday.
Rickey Bustle coached under Frank Beamer from 1987 to 2001, with a brief hiatus to South Carolina in 1994. His son, Brad, is a graduate assistant at Tech this season, working as a video specialist for the defensive coaches.
The elder Bustle’s appearance surprised Beamer and his staff, and the affection among them was obvious as Bud Foster, Charley Wiles, Curt Newsome, John Ballein,...